What have been the contributions of social memory studies to the discourse of German history, particularly about the Nazi past? This essay seeks to distinguish between the memory boom in politics and culture and the more durable insights of social theory and historiography about memory, including insights about this memory boom itself. In particular, it explores mythologies of 'turning points' in the discourse of memory, arguing that the attribution of such turning points is often overstated. To be sure, 1989 did mark significant ruptures. But comparing present debates to the Historikerstreit (historians' dispute) of the mid-1980s, and the Historikerstreit to earlier debates shows that as much has stayed the same as has changed. We remember...
Historical memory, how a people remember the past, is in a state of almost eternal flux. By followin...
Historical memory, how a people remember the past, is in a state of almost eternal flux. By followin...
The ‘Third Reich’ has been one of the most traumatic experiences of the 20th century. It comes there...
This study investigates the influence of history—more specifically the history of the Holocaust—and ...
Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective mem...
The subject of this study is the re-construction of German national identity and nationalist thinkin...
'Was die Menschheitsverbrechen des 21. Jahrhunderts sein werden, wissen wir nicht, aber es ist gut m...
Social movements rely on collective memories to assert claims, mobilize supporters and legitimize th...
The purpose of this article is to survey the changes of German historiography after the World War I...
Social movements rely on collective memories to assert claims, mobilize supporters and legitimize th...
There is now a vast literature on Germans and the problems they have sometimes evaded and sometimes ...
Given the turbulent nature of recent German history, studies of postwar German memory understandably...
There is now a vast literature on Germans and the problems they have sometimes evaded and sometimes ...
This article examines the political uses of memory in the three successor states of the Third Reich....
The memory and the history of the WWII and the Third Reich still constrain politics and politicies i...
Historical memory, how a people remember the past, is in a state of almost eternal flux. By followin...
Historical memory, how a people remember the past, is in a state of almost eternal flux. By followin...
The ‘Third Reich’ has been one of the most traumatic experiences of the 20th century. It comes there...
This study investigates the influence of history—more specifically the history of the Holocaust—and ...
Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective mem...
The subject of this study is the re-construction of German national identity and nationalist thinkin...
'Was die Menschheitsverbrechen des 21. Jahrhunderts sein werden, wissen wir nicht, aber es ist gut m...
Social movements rely on collective memories to assert claims, mobilize supporters and legitimize th...
The purpose of this article is to survey the changes of German historiography after the World War I...
Social movements rely on collective memories to assert claims, mobilize supporters and legitimize th...
There is now a vast literature on Germans and the problems they have sometimes evaded and sometimes ...
Given the turbulent nature of recent German history, studies of postwar German memory understandably...
There is now a vast literature on Germans and the problems they have sometimes evaded and sometimes ...
This article examines the political uses of memory in the three successor states of the Third Reich....
The memory and the history of the WWII and the Third Reich still constrain politics and politicies i...
Historical memory, how a people remember the past, is in a state of almost eternal flux. By followin...
Historical memory, how a people remember the past, is in a state of almost eternal flux. By followin...
The ‘Third Reich’ has been one of the most traumatic experiences of the 20th century. It comes there...